Shadow Hearts. It's all over this game. Yuri, main hero of the first two games, is a Type 2 Anti-Hero who sometimes becomes simply The Hero, and who has no evil tendencies but a habit towards perversion. He's Darkness elemental. Lucia, a heroine of the second game, is a gorgeous Italian bellydancing fortune teller whose personality is, in essence, a combination of a Dumb Brunette with a morbid sense of humor. She's Darkness elemental. Shania, main heroine of the third game, is a Type 2 Anti-Hero who sometimes becomes simply the Hero, and who has no evil tendencies beyond a habit towards anger. She's Darkness elemental. In the second game, you find a map that lets you control demons- who grant you spells and serve as staunch allies. In all three games, you can fuse at least one character with a demon or spirit that can use Dark Magic... and you use this power to beat up bad guys. In addition, the main villain of the first game, who is Darkness elemental, is revealed to have been trying to stop an even worse evil, and that he became a Well-Intentioned Extremist and lost his way. He's not only sorry for what he's done, but dedicates himself to helping the party that killed him after his death.The sheer number of heroic examples of this trope is overwhelming.

Thirded in two ways. First for being so dark compared to the original.note The first divulged into camp A LOT. The re-imagining was so dark that Sci-Fi often had the writers tone it down. Second for being such an excellent execution of the trope. ~ Babyhenchy 1

Seconded, I mean seriously there is ONLY ONE COMPLETELY GOOD CHARACTER IN THE ENTIRE SERIES AND HE DIES!!! ~Troper49

American McGee's Alice is Darker and Edgier done absolutely right. The Steampunk level designs, the twisted (but horribly recognizable) versions of the characters, the "just a dream" atmosphere twisted to nightmares instead of whimsy. It's all given a Back Story that makes perfect sense. Top it off with the drummer for Nine Inch Nails using period instruments and toys to create a creepy soundtrack.

Power Rangers RPM As stated on the season page: note Suppose your first ever exposure to the Batman franchise was the campy 60s television show. Then someone mentions to you, "Hey, did you know that they made a film version of this?" and hands you a DVD of The Dark Knight. Yeah, that's kind of like how Power Rangers RPM compares to its Super Sentai source material and the Power Rangers franchise as a whole.~Zxynoxia

"I'll Cover You." No other makes me cry every time. The first time, Collin and Angel dance down the street, singing about their love for each other, the second time Collin sings the former duet alone at Angel's funeral ~ Cailleach

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Six-year old Nicky gets a rabbit named Harry for Easter and leaves it in a box on the couch. Uncle Phil comes in to watch TV, and after an agonizingly long setup in which he *almost* sits on the box...Uncle Phil sits right down on the box and crushes Harry. Made all the funnier by Will freaking out when Phil tells him because he thinks Phil killed a human.

Kira Yoshikage has the impressive accomplishment of undergoing this twice: he's killed in the mortal realm by being run over by the ambulance that was sent to help him, and in the spirit realm, the "severed hand fetishist" was broken apart and dragged to hell by numerous disembodied arms. Poetic, that. ~ King of the Mime Swing

Madness Combat. Hank dies at the end of pretty much every episode, only to revive with a few bandages next time. That's not mentioning Tricky the clown, who dies multiple times in a single episode and is possibly now immortal. ~Ninjat_126

Just the details for those who don't know: SEVEN DEATHS TOTAL. And that's just Hank's canon deaths. ~ Blue 050645 TL

Whateley Universe. Superhero action? High school hijinx? Superhero deconstruction? Lovecraft Country? Superhero parody? Wacky comedy? The usual answer is 'some of the above' but it depends on which of the dozen canon authors is writing. ~ Marvel Girl

Seconded SO Hard. I grew up with the show (The OBC Recording, the tape of when my dad directed it in a high school, the movie, and my dad directing it again in his middle school when I was nine) and I was terrified of dentists for YEARS ~Nobodys Savior

The video game Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, which had an isometric perspective, but the gameplay treated it as overhead, so you can be walking on the ground and be blocked by the top of a tower. The trope page's picture shows it in action.

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, what happens when people reach the DEH is the main theme of the series, with most people falling over and resorting to such desperate tactics as wiping out every living thing in the Land on the off chance it will also kill the Big Bad that pushed him over, while the few that can be pushed up to a DEH but refuse to fall into it are the ones that ultimately defeat him. ~ Seraphem

Season 3 of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX for Judainote Judai crosses it in Season 3 and spends Season 4 on the other (dark, gloomy) side ~ Lale

Vyse of Skiesof Arcadia is a great example, due to always having a 'never give up' attitude, and yet still seeming reasonable. Heck, there's only one point where he has given up all hope, as he has just been captured by The Empire, and has been stuck in a cell in the inescapable fortress. He is then called out on this for not acting like himself, by his cellmate, who pulls out a piece of wire and picks the lock. Vyse then immediately goes back into a 'Great! Let's find the others, and blow this Popsicle stand!' attitude.~ Smylar

Nanoha. Having a hand stuck through her chest won't stop her from kicking ass. ~spacemonkey37

Vita: Nothing will ever stop her. Her best moment that shows this is from the third season where she was destroying a Cool Starship's heavily fortified and thickly shielded engine after being stabbed through the chest by the same type of Mecha-Mook that nearly killed an 11-year-old Nanoha. The following quote sums her up best. ~ aNinjaWithAIDS

The one from the story titled "Deus Ex Machina" on Lost. Not just because of the Crowning Moment of Heartwarming, but also because of the brilliant twist revealed a whole season later: it was a two-edged Deus Ex Machina, and we saw only one end of it the first time around. Locke was saved by being given hope, but he unknowningly also rescued Desmond and saved the whole world the same way before even knowing of Desmond's existence, and the revelation of this leads to a third Deus Ex Machina. ~ ZiggyZag

Dog Soldiers. As in, you will be disappointed when the werewolves show up because you wanted another twenty minutes with them, does this film pull this trope off. But given how this trope is it never works the rest of the time, is it any surprise? ~ Gadeel

Branwell Bronte, the talented but dissolute brother of the Bronte sisters, supposedly pulled this off in real life. Dying of tuberculosis at the age of thirty-one, he had himself propped up against a mantelpiece just to prove that it could be done.

Milo Murphy's Law. Pick a episode, any episode, and you'll get a spectacular, hilarious chain of disasters. "Going the Extra Milo" and "The Little Engine That Couldn't" are particularly noteworthy, as they both essentially consist of one single unbroken chain of one mishap leading to another for the entire length of the episode. ~ Scrounge

Shipping is portrayed as shallow, silly, inappropriate given all the far-more-important things going on at the time, and downright evil and makes the people involved thoroughly miserable in The Hunger Games... ~ Lale

The almighty Trope Maker of the genre drone metal itself Earth. Perfectly managing to encapsulate that feeling of being buried alive in a 20 foot grave after having all your limbs cut off, eyelids and mouth sown shut with the only sounds you can hear are your muffled, panicked screams as you slowly die of suffocation. ~ Creekery

Yashamaru. Up until 548 there was never any definite indication of just what his gender is in the English manga, and in several different languages the translators have made him a woman because he's just that pretty. ~ Doctor Rayman

Oboro Tsukimigusa is so feminine in appearance, that he's shown to have a woman's figurenote minus the absence of breasts and having a penis even when stripped naked. One could easily mistake him◊ for Azumanga Daioh's Sakaki. ~ Miin U

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